Content Collection Navigation and Autoforwarding

1. A method for network communication of image based content collections, the method comprising: storing, at a database of a server computer system, a plurality of content messages from a plurality of client devices including a first mobile device and a second mobile device; generating, by the server computer system, a first plurality of content collections from the plurality of content messages, each content collection of the first plurality of content collections comprising associated content from one or more content messages of the plurality of content messages; communicating, from the server computer system to the first mobile device, interface information for each content collection of the first plurality of content collections; receiving, from the first mobile device, a selection of a first content collection of the first plurality of content collections; receiving, from the first mobile device, an autoforward communication associated with completion of a presentation of the first content collection at the first mobile device; and automatically communicating a second content collection from the server computer system to the first mobile device for automatic display on the first mobile device in response to receipt of the selection and the autoforward communication, wherein the second content collection is selected automatically by the server computer system, and wherein a respective piece of content is sorted for presentation based on an individual quality score and a weighting based on at least one of content, location, or time associated with the respective piece of content, and wherein each individual quality score is based on a set of quality metrics applied to the respective piece of content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first plurality of content collections comprises content collections from a plurality of friend accounts associated with the first mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving, from the first mobile device, a live autoforward communication associated with completion of an end presentation of a final first content collection of the plurality of content messages at the first mobile device; and automatically communicating a first live content collection from the server computer system to the first mobile device for automatic display on the first mobile device in response to receipt of the live autoforward communication.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising communicating one or more advertising elements for presentation on the first mobile device prior to automatic display of the second content collection.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising communicating one or more advertising elements for presentation on the first mobile device following presentation of a trigger content collection of the first plurality of content collections or the first live content collection, wherein the trigger content collection is selected from content collections of the first plurality of content collections or the first live content collection based on an advertising threshold.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising: receiving, at the server computer system, a second plurality of content messages; receiving, at the server computer system via a curation tool, selection of live media content from the second plurality of content messages for a live content collection; and periodically updating live media content of the live content collection using the curation tool.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the first plurality of content collections comprises a third live content collection; wherein the interface information further comprises one or more frames of image data from each piece of content of the third live content collection, wherein each of the one or more frames of image data from each piece of content of the third live content collection are selected using a curation tool.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content collection comprises a first set of content from a first set of content messages of the plurality of content messages, wherein the first set of content messages are received from a second mobile device associated with a second user account of the server computer system; wherein the first mobile device is associated with a first user account of the server computer system; and wherein the first mobile device and the second mobile device are associated with the server computer system.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first set of content messages comprises all content messages received at the server computer system from the second mobile device within a story threshold time prior to receipt of the selection first-story-request at the server computer system.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the story threshold time is 24 hours.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the first content collection is selected by the server computer system for the first plurality of content collections based on an association between the first user account and the second user account.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising: receiving, at the first mobile device from the server computer system, the interface information for the first plurality of content collections, the interface information; receiving, by the first mobile device, a user input initiating a story request associated with selection of the first content collection of the first plurality of content collections; receiving, by the first mobile device from the server computer system, a first set of ordered pieces of content associated with the first content collection, each piece of content of the first set of ordered pieces of content having an associated display time less than a threshold display time.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising: displaying, by the first mobile device, at least a portion of the first set of ordered pieces of content; identifying, by the first mobile device, a story end trigger associated with display of a final piece of content of the first set of ordered pieces of content; and in response to identification of the story end trigger, automatically initiating display of a second set of ordered pieces of content associated with the second content collection of the first plurality of content collections.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the interface information comprises at least one frame of image data from each piece of content of each content collection of the first plurality of content collections.

15. A system comprising: at least one processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, configure the system to perform operations comprising, at least: storing, at a database of a server computer system, a plurality of content messages from a plurality of client devices including a first mobile device and a second mobile device; generating, by the server computer system, a first plurality of content collections from the plurality of content messages, each content collection of the first plurality of content collections comprising associated content from one or more content messages of the plurality of content messages; communicating, from the server computer system to the first mobile device, interface information for each content collection of the first plurality of content collections; receiving, from the first mobile device, a selection of a first content collection of the first plurality of content collections; receiving, from the first mobile device, an autoforward communication associated with completion of a presentation of the first content collection at the first mobile device; and automatically communicating a second content collection from the server computer system to the first mobile device for automatic display on the first mobile device in response to receipt of the selection and the autoforward communication, wherein the second content collection is selected automatically by the server computer system, and wherein at least a respective piece of content is sorted for presentation based on an individual quality score and a weighting based on at least one of content, location, or time associated with the respective piece of content, and wherein each individual quality score is based on a set of quality metrics applied to the respective piece of content.

16. The system of claim 15, the operations further comprising: automatically presenting each content collection of the first plurality of content collections in a sequential order, wherein the sequential order is based on a time associated with a most recently received content message for each content collection of the first plurality of content collections.

17. The system of claim 16, the operations further comprising: receiving, at the first mobile device, a first tap input to a touchscreen of the first mobile device; in response to the first tap input, shifting to a previous piece of media content of a currently displayed content collection; receiving, at the first mobile device, a first swipe input to the touchscreen of the first mobile device; and in response to the first swipe input, shifting to display of a previous content collection and continuing a sequential display from a beginning of the previous content collection.

18. The system of claim 16, the operations further comprising: displaying, following an end of a content collection of the first plurality of content collections, a standardized media display indicating an end of the content collection before automatically displaying a next content collection in the sequential order; and displaying, following at least a portion of the first plurality of content collections prior to a beginning of the next content collection, one or more advertising elements.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a first mobile device, cause the first mobile device to perform operations in a method for autoforwarding during display of a plurality of content collections on the first mobile device, the operations comprising: storing, at a database of a server computer system, a plurality of content messages from a plurality of client devices including a first mobile device and a second mobile device; generating, by the server computer system, a first plurality of content collections from the plurality of content messages, each content collection of the first plurality of content collections comprising associated content from one or more content messages of the plurality of content messages; communicating, from the server computer system to the first mobile device, interface information for each content collection of the first plurality of content collections; receiving, from the first mobile device, a selection of a first content collection of the first plurality of content collections; receiving, from the first mobile device, an autoforward communication associated with completion of a presentation of the first content collection at the first mobile device; and automatically communicating a second content collection from the server computer system to the first mobile device for automatic display on the first mobile device in response to receipt of the selection and the autoforward communication, wherein the second content collection is selected automatically by the server computer system, and wherein at least a respective piece of content is sorted for presentation based on an individual quality score and a weighting based on at least one of content, location, or time associated with the respective piece of content, and wherein each individual quality score is based on a set of quality metrics applied to the respective piece of content.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein the first content collection comprises a first set of content from a first set of content messages of the plurality of content messages, wherein the first set of content messages are received from a second mobile device associated with a second user account of the server computer system; wherein the first mobile device is associated with a first user account of the server computer system; and wherein the first mobile device and the second mobile device are associated with the server computer system.